we have done holy service, let us do it a second time, and do it a third time, and continue to do it, ever praying the Lord to accept our persevering service. In any case let our consecrated life be for our Lord’s eye alone, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Anything like sounding a trumpet before us is hateful to the lowly Lord; secresy has a charm for Jesus, and the more carefully we preserve it the better. VI. Next, and sixthly, there was this beauty about the action of Mary—that SHE DID IT